“He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population – or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.”

“He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population – or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.”

— Jim Thompson